Of course this would affect the school situation, adding hundreds of new residential units, thousands of people, and lots of school aged children to the area. The school zones serving the Farragut Houses are split amongst P.S. 287 Bailey K Ashford, P.S. 8 Robert Fulton and P.S. 307 Daniel Hale would be affected. P.S. 8 is already overcrowded. P.S. 287 will likely be full by the time these buildings are built. Clearly the city needs to plan ahead and assume that this is a real possibility that will further exacerbate the effects of unplanned for development in the area.

Hard to predict the future, but it is safe to say that there will be new development in Downtown Brooklyn that isn’t currently on the radar. We need to start planning to build a new school in the neighborhood now, before overcrowding becomes a major problem down the road.